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If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.
by 1827162 4y ago
If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.
- lwhi 4y agoWhy?
- 1827162 4y agoBecause the folks at the NSA are not going to stop doing so... The government itself is going to continue with it. And we don't want to allow the state to have the monopoly on advanced AI.
- 1827162 4y agoSome kind of distributed training, BitTorrent style would be one way of getting around it, using thousands of GPUs worldwide? If we could somehow make the training process profitable, like a cryptocurrency, then that would be even better.
- realce 4y agoHa we replied the same thing at the same time - great minds!
- realce 4y agoBecause the NSA isn't going to stop, the CCP isn't going to stop. Anyone who doesn't stop is a threat to my personal freedom, so the only logical reaction to me is to empower yourself as well as possible and keep training.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoHuh? How does someone else’s possession of a LLM threaten your personal freedom? How does training your own counteract that? They’re not Pokémon…
- realce 4y agoIt's not someone else's possession - it's someone else's proprietary possession. A government's proprietary possession of computational power is analogous to it having weapons barred from public ownership, meaning they control a vector of violence than could be used against their citizens without counter-balance. If someone else has the ability to weaponize information against you, your ability to understand reality is threatened. Without personal LLMs or other AI tools, my ability to analyze things like deepfakes, LLM-written text, or other reality-distortion assets is threatened. It might sound hyperbolic but we're already hearing people talk about banning GPUs. I'm not trying to fall back into the past.
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- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago>> They’re not Pokémon… Despite all the evolutions.
- carapace 4y agoIn the USA at least there's always the Second Amendment argument to be made: if these computer programs are arms we have the right to bear them. Same argument as for encryption programs, eh?